Nukes require more maintenance and constant rebuilding than a 50-year-old English sports car engine, however the Russkiis no doubt stiffed the troops, ship, and aircraft crews to pay the bills on that. It's a little-known fact in the civilian West, but the Soviet military was divided into five separate branches rather than the typical three in most Western nations, which made it much easier to figure out who to keep paying - Red Army, Red Air Force, Red Navy, PVO-Stranii (Air Defense Forces), or the Strategic Rocket Forces.